The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Home is where the heart is.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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